{"id":954,"date":"2009-10-09T20:21:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2009-10-15T10:08:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T08:08:30","slug":"shiny-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Shiny!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=926\" target=\"_blank\">National Championships<\/a>, I borrowed Gunther&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Arms<\/a> .22 revolver. Gorgeous gun.<\/p>\n<p>Walked over to him after the event, said &#8220;I owe you money&#8221;. &#8220;Huh?&#8221; &#8220;Well, you&#8217;re not getting your gun back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now with a gun like this, those are fighting words. Good thing we&#8217;re buddies.<\/p>\n<p>Ludi overheard and mentioned he had a Freedom Arms revolver for sale, on behalf of someone else. This only happens when someone dies or emigrates &#8212; there is no upgrade path, so people tend to hang on to these things. Fortunately, in this case, the fellow emigrated. So that same evening I bummed some computer time off a friend, and a ridiculous amount of money changed hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-956\" title=\"20091009r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091009r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20091009r\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091009r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/20091009r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behold, Biatchez! My shiny new toy (apologies for crappy phone photograph).<\/p>\n<p>Now to convince the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunsite.co.za\/forum\/licensing-and-relicensing\/\" target=\"_blank\">nice fellows up in Pretoria<\/a> to give me a licence before <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong> die or emigrate&#8230; :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the National Championships, I borrowed Gunther&#8217;s Freedom Arms .22 revolver. Gorgeous gun. Walked over to him after the event, said &#8220;I owe you money&#8221;. &#8220;Huh?&#8221; &#8220;Well, you&#8217;re not getting your gun back&#8221;. Now with a gun like this, those are fighting words. Good thing we&#8217;re buddies. Ludi overheard and mentioned he had a Freedom Arms revolver for sale, on behalf of someone else. This only happens when someone dies or emigrates &#8212; there is no upgrade path, so people tend to hang on to these things. Fortunately, in this case, the fellow emigrated. So that same evening I bummed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}